Farseer

"The mists of space and time retreat from my mind."

As Exarchs are masters of their chosen warrior path, Farseers are masters among the Warlocks. They have the ability to not only divine the future, but determine which of the myriad possible futures is the one towards which events are moving. The reasons for their actions are often inscrutable and give outsiders the impression that Eldar behavior is completely random.

Aside from their incredible powers of divination, Farseers can direct the energies of the warp itself to slay their foes without ever firing a shot.

Tactics

Compared to other commanders the Farseer has the most special abilities and these abilities are among the strongest (with the exception being that of the Necron Lord). Due to her weak melee attacks and high cost, many players choose to avoid building the Farseer in tier 1, since a Ranger/Dark Reaper combo can work better at that point in terms of damage output. However, it should be noted that her lower than average melee damage is somewhat accounted for by having higher than average disruption when performing special attacks. This often overlooked subtlety, coupled with the fact that she has the highest melee morale damage output of any T1 commander (beating out even the Haemonculus), lead some players to build her not so much for her damage, but for her ability to keep the enemy consistently knocked over and broken. Nonetheless, having her stand toe-to-toe with other commanders is ill advised.

The Farseer is fairly fragile unupgraded and should be prepared to retreat with Fleet of Foot as necessary. The best squad to accompany the Farseer is a Seer Council, but a Howling Banshee Squad is sufficient before the Seer Council becomes available. The Seer Council, aside from simply being better fighters than Banshees, also provide a recharge reduction to all of the Farseers spells.

The Psychic Storm ability does damage over time to a squad and also to nearby infantry. Of note is the fact that Psychic Storm follows the squad even as it moves. This makes it useful against any infantry squad because they are unable to run away from it once it has begun.

Mind War is designed for doing massive damage to a single target whilst slowing it at the same time. Priority should then be given to detector units if accompanied by Rangers, but it is otherwise a potent weapon against other commanders. This is particularly useful against Imperial Guard commanders, who can be often killed in a single hit. Priority should be especially given to Sanctioned Psykers who, in addition for providing detection, have a similar ability that they would use on the Farseer, Strip Soul.

Guide should be used on a ranged squad such as Warp Spider Squads or Fire Dragons to significantly increase accuracy and damage. Choose the squad based upon the target you wish to quickly kill (ie choose Fire Dragons if you need to kill a vehicle).

Eldritch Storm is a powerful ability that affects all enemy targets but is especially powerful against vehicles and buildings. It is best used inside an enemy base so that it can hit the most targets. Buildings obviously cannot run away, and it will be difficult for enemies to move their infantry and vehicles out of range without allowing you to completely annihilate their base. NOTE: The Eldritch Storm has rather an interesting effect when it kills an allied infantry (like allied computers in skirmishes or accidentally killing your own Avatar with it) as it conjures a rather small replica of the storm at the Farseer's current location which does damage her and other nearby units as well. This occurrence is not rare and happens quite frequently.

Abilities

Psychic Storm

Psychic Storm

Hotkey: C

Requires

Nothing

Target Types

Any enemy infantry, heavy infantry, commanders, or daemons

Range

35

Area of effect

10

Cooldown time

155 s

Effects

The Farseer unleashes a power psychic blast over an area, damaging enemy infantry every second over 10 seconds. Damage shown is the total over 10 seconds.

Damage Values

Infantry

Vehicles

Buildings

Daemons

Base Damage

Low

Med

High

H.Med

H.Hi

Cmdr

Low

Med

High

Air

Low

Med

High

Med

High

Morale

Min

Max

Min.D

120-128

120-128

160-170

160-170

160-170

128-136

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

160-170

50

50

160

170

50

Mind War

Mind War

Hotkey: M

Requires

Nothing

Target Types

Any enemy infantry, heavy infantry, commanders, or daemons

Range

30

Area of effect

0

Cooldown time

110 s

Effects

Does damage to the targeted unit over 5 seconds and slows the target by 25% for the duration of the Mind War. Damage shown is the total over 5 seconds. This ability automatically targets squad leaders over regular units in the squad.

Damage Values

Infantry

Vehicles

Buildings

Daemons

Base Damage

Low

Med

High

H.Med

H.Hi

Cmdr

Low

Med

High

Air

Low

Med

High

Med

High

Morale

Min

Max

Min.D

315-440

284-396

315-440

315-440

315-440

315-440

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

315-440

315-440

50

315

440

5

Guide

Guide

Hotkey: G

Requires

Nothing

Target Types

Any friendly infantry, heavy infantry, commanders, and daemon medium

Range

40

Area of effect

Entire targeted squad

Cooldown time

150 s

Effects

Improves the accuracy of the target squad by 30% for 25 seconds. Depending on the squad's initial accuracy with their weapons, this can be a boost to overall DPS by 40-50%. Also note that a guided squad firing on the move has 300% the DPS of an unguided one.

Eldritch Storm

The Farseer casts a massive psychic-powered storm that blasts the area with psychic discharge for 5 seconds, affecting all units within the area of effect and well as throwing them back with the force of the Storm (40-50 force). The damage of the spell has a radius of 10, roughly the size of the targeting cursor, but the knockback of the spell is in a radius of 20. Units caught within the the damage radius also have their movement speed slowed by 25% for the duration of the spell. Damage shown is the total over 5 seconds.